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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

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He lived in London, United Kingdom. He was born on May 4,1825 and he died on June 29, 1895. Huxley was a huge supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution. He helped to get everyone to accept Darwin’s theory, but he did pointed out the problems in Darwin’s theory. He also did his own research in zoology and paleontology. Huxley’s debate in 1860 made him known. This debate was about evolution, and he gained more acceptance for the theory of evolution. He created his first book in 1845, but the book was published in 1849. Huxley’s findings impacted the developing theory of evolution by he helped people study more on evolution, and he gained major acceptance from people. This relates to the modern theory by it shows what we know now and what we
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In "Brave New World," Aldous Huxley uses various literary techniques, including symbolism and imagery, to critique the dangers of technological advancements and their impact on society. Through his portrayal of a dystopian society in which technology controls and manipulates individuals, Huxley warns of how technological advances can lead to a loss of freedom, happiness, and individuality. He also critiques how society prioritizes efficiency, pleasure, and conformity over a genuine human connection and emotional depth. Huxley presents themes of control, manipulation, and societal stability that arise from the misuse of technology to create a controlled and efficient future. By employing tropes of imagery and symbolism, the novelist expresses

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Aldous Huxley was born on July 26, 1894, in Laleham England. Huxley grew up in London. His family was known for science and to be very well educated. He had a grandfather and brother who were known biologists. His father was an editor and his mother ran a boarding school.

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When reading different books, it is easy to see how one compares to today’s world. There are certain instances that make you believe that the author can predict the future. The same can be said about the book Brave New World. This book was written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley. There are many ways in which Brave New World compares to the modern day America.

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Huxley is sending a powerful and controversial message about God. He is saying that God is not necessary in their civilization because science has taken its place; he is not denying God, but instead explaining why he's obsolete. Mond explains to John that "fear of death and of what comes after death makes men turn to religion. This is partially truth because in religions like Catholicism, there is an afterlife where people will pay for their sins or will be rewarded for their good deeds. But because in the world state people are conditioned to be comfortable with death, religion is not necessary.

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Darwin is also commonly credited with writing the ideas of natural selection, variation/adaptation, and evolution. His studies are the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. Darwin 's studies were also used to justify some major wars, saying that natural selection was taking place in humans and the weak will die and only the strongest will survive. Otto von Bismarck was a 19th century, Prussian, politician. He is most commonly associated with the unification of Germany.

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As a man that also agreed with the beliefs of men like Charles Darwin he would help establish an “optimistic view of the future” through Darwinism a theoretical evolution. These views also had impact on

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Context can be understood as the environment from which a text derived and which it presents. Works of the dystopian science fiction genre; Brave New World exemplifies this inextricable link between the context of composition and the creation and reception of texts. Half a century apart, each grew from different historical and social influences. Huxley has extrapolated, from his own time, elements of contemporary trend which he finds disconcerting into a hypothesized future.

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“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice” (Huxley 7). This is something a world leader would say in an alternate universe such as Brave New World. Despite some similarities between the “New World” and our world, it can be inferred that Aldous Huxley uses radical beliefs to prove how technology has made society develop negatively. Although some may argue that the novel Brave New World is an accurate warning to society about what the future entails, the novel is merely an exaggeration of observations made from technological advancements and their impacts on society.

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In the novel, Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, and according to Karl Marx’s philosophy, individuals serve the community according to their respective ability and, in return, the society fulfills the needs of the people to reach social stability. Marx’s philosophy, also known as Marxism, was developed during the industrial revolution and was created to apply to the workers of his time. Long after Marx was Huxley’s Brave New World, which was constructed as a satirical imitation of Marx’s idealism of communism, and Huxley’s contemporary values and current society. For Marx, he believed that the need of the society was more important than our own individual need and, in Huxley’s World State, individualism, science, and self-expression

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In Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, individual freedom is controlled by the use of recreational drugs, genetic manipulation and the encouragement of promiscuous sexual conduct, creating the ideal society whose inhabitants are in a constant happy unchanging utopia. In sharp contrast, Seamus Heaney’s poetry allows for the exploration of individual freedom through his symbolic use of nature and this is emphasised even further by people’s expression of religion, which prevails over the horrors of warfare. Huxley’s incorporation of the totalitarian ruler Mustapha Mond exemplifies the power that World State officials have over individuals within this envisioned society. “Almost nobody.

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When Huxley wrote the novel Brave New World he envisioned a world 600 years in the future. Although many of the things that Huxley writes about is very farfetched, other things are relatable, in fact some of them have already occurred. For example Huxley states that in the future we will have the ability to create children in test tube, modern day science has enabled us to come very close to that very same prediction. “The complete mechanisms were inspected by eighteen identical curly auburn girls in Gamma green, packed in crates by thirty four short legged, left-handed male Delta Minuses, and loaded into the waiting trucks and lorries by sixty three blue-eyed, flaxen and freckled Epsilon Semi Morons” (p.160). This is an example from the book about how they create the children.

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He was an English naturalist, biologist, and geologist. His scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. He suggested that animals and humans shared the same

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He lived from 1809-1882. He believed that the desire of animals does not have anything on how they evolve and that changes in an organism life does not affect the evolution of species. He also said the organism of the same species are different and the ones that have a lot of helpful things to survive in their environment have more offspring. Some of the animals don't adapt so well so they die. He said that most elephants used to have short trucks and some had long ones.

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Many ideas led him to believe what he believed. One of them was, James Hutton’s ideas about geological change. His theory consisted that sediments, rocks, soil, etc were made after the great flood and new species “rose” from that disaster and that it’s a cycle. Charles Lyell’s theory also shaped his thinking. Lyell wrote the book of “Principles of Geology”, where Hutton became famous.

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In these places he discovered many different things. Some of these thing include the theory of evolution. With Darwin’s theory of evolution he also made a theory of natural selection. Natural selection is the process where organisms adapt or evolve to survive their environment. Unlike sexual selection natural selection happens naturally without breeding.

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